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Iowa early News Headlines: Friday, 11/2/18

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November 2nd, 2018 by Ric Hanson

Here is the latest Iowa news from The Associated Press at 3:40 a.m. CDT

FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) — A priest has moved out of an Iowa retirement home close to a Roman Catholic school, one day after his history of sexually abusing boys became public. The Diocese of Sioux City says that the Rev. Jerome Coyle “is no longer at” the Marian Home, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. The move comes one day after an Associated Press story exposed the church’s three-decade cover-up of abuse by Coyle, who admitted in 1986 that he had victimized approximately 50 boys over 20 years.

MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa (AP) — A medical examiner has testified that a 4-month-old infant found dead and maggot-infested in a baby swing last year weighed only a few ounces more than his birth weight at the time of his death. The Courier reports that testimony came Thursday in the murder trial of the baby’s father, 29-year-old Zachary Paul Koehn, who also faces a child endangerment count in the August 2017 death of his son, Sterling Koehn.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican congressman Steve King is rejecting accusations that he’s associated with an Austrian white supremacist group. Those claims have prompted condemnation from within his own party just days before Tuesday’s election. During a forum with Iowa business leaders Thursday, the eight-term congressman said a Washington Post story this month wrongly characterized his August meeting in Austria as being with the far-right Freedom Party, a group with Nazi ties. The Post says it stands by its story.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Police have announced an arrest in the shooting death last month of a Des Moines man. Des Moines police said Thursday that 31-year-old Cornelius Davis, of Des Moines, has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder, robbery and willful injury in the Oct. 4 shooting death of 42-year-old Thurmon Tervale Cole.